Graduation 2007
11:00am
Friday
Muvico Palace 20 Theatres
3200 Airport Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Dreamworks Animation Supervising Character Animator Jason Schleifer to speak at DMAC Spring Commencement
Jason Schleifer
Dreamworks Animation Credits:
Madagascar 2 (currently in development)
Shrek 3
Over the Hedge
Penguins
Christmas Caper
Madagascar
Weta Digital Credits:
The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King - Animation Lead
The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring
As well as animating on the three films, he also wrote the animation pipeline that was used throughout the trilogy.
In addition to animating for feature films, Jason has taught three Autodesk Maya Master Classes on Rigging for Animation, co-taught a 2002 Siggraph course on character rigging, and has mentored and lectured for the online animation school AnimationMentor.com. He was also instrumental in the creation of the 3d animation software Maya, working as a Product Specialist at Alias|Wavefront (now Autodesk) for three and a half years. He was the recipient of a Maya Master Award in 2002.
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